Let There Be Light: Combating Racism and the Conscious Society

Look, I'm not here to condemn you.  Condemning you, after all, would condemn me as well.  I'm here to tell you that it's not us against the racists.  We're not fighting a battle with the Paula Deens of the world.  If only it were that simple, that cut and dried.  The battle is instead us against racism, and that racism resides in each of us.  This war begins within.

Amazing post, this.

Plato's Cave - living reactively, stubbornly in ignorant darkness; that's where we come from.  

We are all flawed, unable to live in God's Kingdom until we recognize this and accept that there is something greater than us.  We are not as entitled as we feel.

Then, we think - we fill in the dark places of our world, our bodies, our minds, developing a conscious understanding of how things truly are.  This thought produces wonder, curiosity, the ability to plan and self-conscious control over the darkness and our own limiting fears.

We can't live when we retreat into our silos and think "us vs them" in a battle towards some closing point. Look at the world's war zones for evidence of that.

The only way that we, society, works is collaboratively, consciously, in spite of fear.  When we overcome the barriers that separate us, we realize that those barriers were not walls, but the floor of the cave from which we all started.  

Accepting a little light into our lives changes all that.  

When we look around, we see that there's no us and them, no external vs. internal; we are not the centre of anything, but we are part of something.  When we accept this truth, we can consciously be part of the whole and plan accordingly.